Stronge, who joins in October, is widely respected for the beers he has produced at Buxton and, according to Northern Monk “will triple the years of experience we have in the brew team”.

Russell Bissett, director at Leeds-based Northern Monk, explained on the brewery’s blog: “Colin brings with him years of experience and amongst many other things his addition to the team means we can start to fast track our wild beer and ageing programme.

In the past this was an area we were reluctant to delve too deep into as we felt we didn’t have the knowledge and experience within the team to do the styles justice.

“However our original brew kit at The Old Flax Store is the perfect home for this and something we had always planned to do in time.”

The brewery has also detailed the latest additions to its Patrons 6 series of beers, this time with Jon Simmons.

Bissett said: “We’re excited to launch Kuncklepuck and with the help of our collaborators at Bissell feel it’s one of the best DIPA’s we’ve brewed. With Slam Dank pencilled in the brew schedule we’re running out of beer / sporting / hop pun inspiration for this series.

“Whilst a DIPA while Bissell were in town was always going to be on the cards we were also keen to brew something with more of a British take. We decided to incorporate this into the ABV defying light beers with Fell Runner Ricky Lightfoot.

“Ingleborough a Session imperial Stout (Yeah, we know… we eventually settled on Session Porter) is a 4% Porter that we’ve packed with as much flavour and body as we possibly could cram into it.”